Phil Ivey’s online poker training site is up for sale barely a year after it launched with the promise of delivering high quality content from a highly skilled roster of sponsored pros.
The Ivey League online poker-training site is up for sale.
If you have $20m handy, then head over to Merger Network and make your bid. Unfortunately, the business summary seems to be written in Swahili. You have been warned.
In the summer of 2013, the poker community started to get a little wet after Phil Ivey launched a free play social media poker offering on Facebook called IveyPoker. In Sep 2013, the app went mobile.
The rumors started to circulate that Ivey had taken his first step towards owning a real money online poker network. The States would be his first point of call, and then the world. Global domination, nothing less would do.
Patrick Antonius, Greg Merson, Jennifer Harman and Dan Smith were some of the biggest names to wear the Ivey Poker patch. Then there was Ivey himself. The opportunity to play with the greatest poker player in the world was too much to bear. Active users started to pile through the gates.
Merson would later leave the stable and join WSOP.com, but many more arrived. At one point it seemed likely that IveyPoker would overtake Full Tilt’s world record for having the most sponsored pros on their books. Only none of them were getting paid.